Bruce Perens tells how he got involved with Linux and Free Software (video)
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| You've probably seen quotes from long-time Linux and Free Software advocate
| Bruce Perens, and you may have even have seen his picture a few times. Now,
| in this exclusive Linux.com video, you have a chance to "meet" him in a
| little more personal way, and to learn how Bruce got interested in Linux and
| FOSS -- and why he stays both interested and involved.
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http://www.linux.com/feature/131346
Just 10 Years of Open Source?
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| Abhijit Nadgouda says it's been a decade since the term open source was
| chosen to represent the concept. This is true, but the concept has been
| around far longer. I remember reading through freely available source code
| to BBS systems back in the mid-late 80's to discover their secrets. Long
| before that, software was freely given away with source code by hobbyists.
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http://www.openlogic.com/blogs/2008/04/just-10-years-of-open-source/
Recent:
Software giants crowding roundtable at ISO
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| The success of open source software (OSS) has software giants like Microsoft
| running scared, OSS pioneer Bruce Perens says. Although most IT shops today
| use OSS such as Nagios, Samba...
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http://enterpriselinuxlog.blogs.techtarget.com/2008/04/09/491/
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| Unfortunately, running for the OSI board is going to be painful. Some oppose
| my action against vendor excesses like the Novell-Microsoft agreement. And
| there's bad blood from the past - some of it my fault. I'm sure this campaign
| will inspire ad-hominem material about me on the net, etc. That's another
| reason that I'll need your support.
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http://techp.org/p/7
Perens: 'Badgeware' threat to open source's next decade
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| Perens said the growth in licenses, especially the emergence of "badgeware",
| or attribution licenses used by numerous open source companies, such as last
| year's Common Public Attribution License (CPAL), is dangerous. Today, we have
| 68 licenses ranging from the well-known GNU General Public License(GPL) to
| the, well... the OCLC Research Public License 2.0 recognized by the OSI.
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http://www.regdeveloper.co.uk/2008/02/11/open_source_at_ten/
Why Microsoft Must Control One Laptop Per Child
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| It's a threat Microsoft can't let stand: the entire third world learning
| Linux as children, and growing up to use it. And Microsoft is going to get
| its way.
|
| It comes after a sudden wave of SCO-like problems for the OLPC project. A
| specious patent lawsuit over keyboards. Board-member Intel thrown out of the
| project for attempting to convince national governments to drop OLPC
| purchases and go with its own (Windows) product. First, OLPC is shown what
| its problems will be if it doesn't cooperate with Microsoft. Then, Microsoft
| approaches with money and technical help - you just have to run Windows to
| get it.
|
| [...]
|
| Unfortunately, I don't believe that Microsoft's intent toward the OLPC
| project is at all benign. They will promote their OLPC software load for
| DRM-locked content with the help of proprietary publishers who are threatened
| enough by open content to throw some zero cost but DRM locked e-books to the
| third world. If they can get governments to commit to the DRM-locked content
| on your platform, a non-Microsoft OS is going to be out of the race.
|
| Also, nobody who wants an open platform for the third world is
| being "religious" about it, promoting sound public policy is not religion.
| I'm really tired of hearing that old saw brought up, please stop it.
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http://technocrat.net/d/2008/1/10/33518
Perens urges firms to go open source
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| Many companies could successfully partake in open source projects without
| adversely affecting their business, according to open source activist Bruce
| Perens.
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http://www.vnunet.com/vnunet/news/2203142/companies-should-share-software
Related:
Perens urges firms to go open source
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| Many companies could successfully partake in open source projects without
| adversely affecting their business, according to open source activist Bruce
| Perens.
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http://www.vnunet.com/vnunet/news/2203142/companies-should-share-software
Novell Apologies Debunked, 2700 People Sign Protest Letter
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| Obviously, the Free Software community feels very strongly about
| this issue. But Free Software is not the only party represented.
| Many of the signers identify themselves as recent Novell VARs
| and institutional customers who will now turn to another Linux
| distribution.
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http://technocrat.net/d/2006/12/6/11832
Perens to rain on Novell's parade
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| The topics will be
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| * The Microsoft-Novell agreement
| * GPL version 3 and how it will impede Novell from making use of new
| innovation by the Free Software community
| * Software patents vs. Free Software.
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http://technocrat.net/d/2007/3/12/15975
Allegorical version of the Novell-Microsoft Patent Agreement
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| Once upon a time there was a software company called Novell. Novell had a
| friend "Big Mike" who was always getting in trouble with the law, but he
| was strong and had a big business.
|
| [...]
|
| The volunteers didn't like any of this. They made sure that Novell
| couldn't use any of their new work, but they shared it with all of
| Novell's competitors. The volunteers stuck Novell with the full cost
| of maintaining all of their old work without their help, for as long
| as Novell had to support its own customers. The volunteers were also
| business owners, developers, VARs, and IT managers, and they never
| recommended Novell for anything again.
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http://technocrat.net/d/2006/11/28/11485
Open Sources: Voices from the Open Source Revolution
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| Efforts to hurt us from inside are the most dangerous. I think we'll
| also see more attempts to dilute the definition of Open Source to
| include partially-free products, as we saw with the /Qt/ library in
| KDE before Troll Tech saw the light and released an Open Source
| license. Microsoft and others could hurt us by releasing a lot of
| software that's just free enough to attract users without having the
| full freedoms of Open Source. It's conceivable that they could kill
| off development of some categories of Open Source software by releasing
| a "good enough," "almost-free-enough" solution. However, the strong
| reaction against the KDE project before the /Qt/ library went fully
| Open Source bodes poorly for similar efforts by MS and its ilk.
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http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/opensources/book/perens.html
Protest the Microsoft-Novell Patent Agreement
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| In short, now that Novell has chosen not to hang together with the
| Free Software community, we've chosen not to do so with you.
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http://techp.org/petition/show/1
Perens blasts Microsoft/Novell "protection racket"
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| Salt Lake City -- In a small conference room across the street from
| the location of Novell's BrainShare conference, free-software
| advocate Bruce Perens attacked Novell's patent deal with Microsoft
| and said that Novell was enabling Microsoft to run "a protection
| racket" with the threat of its patents.
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| [...]
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| More than that, though, Perens said, if the Novell-Microsoft patent deal is
| allowed to stand. It would take only as few as "two or three intellectual
| property law-suits" of open-source developers or small business at a cost
| of at least $5 million dollars a pop, to destroy open-source development.
| So, from where he sits, Novell is running a "protection racket" with "Big
| Mikey" as the enforcer
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http://www.linux-watch.com/news/NS9126255519.html
Norway opens Free Software Center
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| Norway opened a national center for competence in Free Software in Drammen,
| near Oslo, on Wednesday. Here's the center's web page in Norwegian.
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http://technocrat.net/d/2007/8/17/25148http://techp.org/p/4
Is Microsoft/Novell SCO All Over Again?
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| Several days after Novell's Brainshare conference, Scott talked to
| Bruce Perens about the reaction to his news conference criticizing
| Novell's financial and development agreements with Microsoft. In
| this conversation, Scott challenges an earlier Perens statement
| that the agreement amounts to "SCO all over again."
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http://osc.gigavox.com/shows/detail1767.html
Perens Lashes Out at Claims GPL 3 Brings Legal Risks
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| "Let's make it clear that [ACT] is Microsoft's lobbying front andt
| hat they are going to paint as negative a picture as they can,"
| Perens told eWEEK in an interview.
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| "Obviously, GPL software is displacing Microsoft enough to have
| them concerned, and it's doing it at customers who are important
| to them. A lawyer's job is to scare the other side if they can--because
| they know it's cheaper than winning a case in court," he said.
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http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,2112267,00.asp
Jobs unlikely to push for lift of video DRM
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| Apple CEO Steve Jobs may be pushing for music labels to lift
| copyright protection on digital music but he doesn't appear so
| eager to do the same for video content, despite his position as
| the largest shareholder in Walt Disney Co.
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http://www.linuxworld.com.au/index.php?id=1651457572&rid=-50